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Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP



On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:51:03AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
| 4. disable exim/postfix/sendmail. this will mean that you won't be able
|    to send mail locally (some applications like mutt rely on local MTA
|    to send their mail). 

If you use ssmtp instead of exim/other_complete_MTA you can still send
mail out, but that is all ssmtp does.  It is not a deamon either, it
runs when it is called then terminates.  I use it on my cygwin (win2k)
box at work so I can use mutt.

-D



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